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Hundreds of volunteers will scatter far and wide across the island today to take part in the EY Coastal Clean-up. The island-wide event organised by Keep Bermuda Beautiful is part of a global initiative by Ocean Conservancy. It is also the largest gl...

A birthday campaign to raise funds to help preserve and protect the island’s environment has nearly hit its $25,000 target. More than 60 individuals have donated funds to Stuart Hayward’s fundraising drive and raised a total of $23,299. The campaign,...

The Bermuda Environment and Sustainability Taskforce has launched a fundraising drive to coincide with founder Stuart Hayward’s 74th birthday. The charity is urging members of the public to donate to the campaign to recognise Mr Hayward’s efforts. “S...

The West End Development Corporation maintained that it is keeping an open mind on the future of the Cross Island Marina project. And while the Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Taskforce criticised the quango for failing to publicise its suggesti...

A Bermudian student has been selected to attend an environmental sustainability conference taking place in New Zealand. Jendayi Joell was one of 25 students attending North Carolina State University to be given the opportunity to attend the Sustaini...

Charity Keep Bermuda Beautiful provided a double dose of community spirit last weekend by embarking on a series of island-wide clean up operations to mark Earth Day and the group’s own Spring Clean event. On April 22, 70 cast members from Up with Peo...

Mounds of blue-bagged trash at the decaying Devon Springs Recycling Centre have grown into an “eyesore” for area residents. The facility, closed down in 2007 and later damaged by storms and fire, “looks horrible” in the words of a Christopher’s Close...

Environmentalists have welcomed the move to hold public meetings to discuss the master plan for the America’s Cup event village. Stuart Hayward, the chief advocacy officer of BEST, said in a statement: “BEST is very encouraged by and wants to acknowl...

Environmentalist groups have welcomed the Bermuda Government’s stated aim to move towards “least cost, high quality and sustainable” electricity. This week, the Bermuda Government tabled the Electricity Bill, which will open up the Island’s power gen...

The Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Taskforce has won a Supreme Court appeal against the handling of the South Basin project. BEST launched legal action against the Development Applications Board (DAB) and the minister responsible for planning a...

Developers could be hit with civil penalties under a raft of new robust measures aimed at tackling those that flout planning rules. The policy was first announced in last week’s Throne Speech and will see the Director of Planning given powers to issu...

An environmental group has raised safety concerns over plans to build a liquid propane gas storage facility on the outskirts of Hamilton. The Bermuda Environmental and Sustainability Taskforce (BEST) fears the development may cause an “elevated safet...